[Oe List ...] The Emerging Shape of the New Pedagogy and areference to David Whyte

[Herman Greene]

There is a lot to comment on here. Thomas Berry felt that the age of the
creation of religions was over and what was coming into being was a
"meta-religious" mode. This in part had to do with the new cosmology and
Earth spirituality, and in part to do with the pluriform religious that was
used in a prior email on this listserv. 

 

His views on pluriform Christianity are given in the recently published book
by him called "The Christian Future and the Fate of the Earth." 

 

I recognize that this issue is out of anyone's control and will take its own
course, but for myself I think to go beyond a tradition one has to go into
it and transform it. So I'm neither post-Christian, nor secular, but am
certainly pluriform.

 

John B. Cobb, Jr., has become a friend of mine. He once wrote a book called
"The Essence of Christianity." Recently he commented that he saw it
differently now, there wasn't one Christianity, but many and the church was
ever-changing what Christianity is. We are in another greatly transformative
period of Christian history, as are the other religious traditions.

 

Herman

 

 

 

 

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Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] The Emerging Shape of the New Pedagogy and
areference to David Whyte

 

On Sep 19, 2010, Bill Parker wrote about our changing times and the changing
nature of our calling:

 



There is no new pedagogy nor new pedagogue without embodying that which is
being disclosed in the style of the pedagogy. RSI changed our lives because
the pedagogues were living their pedagogy! That reality was the methodology.
We, too, are called to be that embodiment regardless of whether we say yes
or no to what history is asking us to do.

 

Pat Webb and I had an email exchange recently that fits into this
conversation. I wrote to Pat:

 

My quest has been revealed to me in a rather more clear light recently. I
introduced myself with the expression "post-Christian secular religious" for
the first time in public a few weeks ago and surprised myself by giving a
name for what I've been reaching for for some years. It's a puzzlement to
find myself in but not off the church, in and not of the world - both of
which seem to equate to "in but not of my own symbol system." There are
surely a myriad conversations to be had about one's calling when the calling
seems to transcend the faith tradition that gave us heart to recognize and
ears to hear the call. It all seems a bit torturous. 

  

To which Pat replied:

 

I think these words describe very accurately the human journey of our times.
We are asked to be grounded and expanded at the same time, reaching out and
including more and more in our little image baskets because the Earth is
desperate for that.

 

.and then added a provocative reference: 





People who are aware of this process and consciously cooperating with it are
developing what David Whyte calls "True Presence" and a "Conversational
Identity".  If you haven't gotten his Live in San Francisco DVD, you and
Burna would just love it!  I think I ordered it for $15 on his website
DavidWhyte. com  ???? You might want to check it out.  Good spirit nurture.

 

 

Regards to all.

 

David

 

 

David Dunn

740 S Alton Way 9B

Denver, CO 80247

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720-221-4661

 





 

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